Region Incrementing Visual Cryptography

This letter presents a novel visual cryptography scheme, called region incrementing visual cryptography (RIVC), for sharing visual secrets with multiple secrecy levels in a single image. In the proposed n-level RIVC scheme, the content of an image S is designated to multiple regions associated with...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE signal processing letters 2009-08, Vol.16 (8), p.659-662
1. Verfasser: Wang, R.-Z.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This letter presents a novel visual cryptography scheme, called region incrementing visual cryptography (RIVC), for sharing visual secrets with multiple secrecy levels in a single image. In the proposed n-level RIVC scheme, the content of an image S is designated to multiple regions associated with n secret levels, and encoded to n+1 shares with the following features: (a) each share cannot obtain any of the secrets in S, (b) any t (2lestlesn+1) shares can be used to reveal t-1 levels of secrets, (c) the number and locations of not-yet-revealed secrets are unknown to users, (d) all secrets in S can be disclosed when all of the n+1 shares are available, and (e) the secrets are recognized by visually inspecting correctly stacked shares without computation. The basis matrices for constructing the proposed n-level RIVC with small values of n=2, 3, 4 are introduced, and the results from two experiments are presented.
ISSN:1070-9908
1558-2361
DOI:10.1109/LSP.2009.2021334